DEATH PENALTY
DEMONSTRATION BY NEW SOCIETY LONDON, March 13. While the execution of Charles Malcolm Lake was being carried out at Pentonvillc gaol for the murder of George Hamblin. an inmate of the Westminster Institution, members of a new society opposing the death penalty demonstrated outside. A procession of expensive cars, headed by Mrs Van der Elst, founder of the society, slowly encircled the prison and men and women prayed in the street. Lake was convicted under the name of George Harvey. He refused to reveal his identity because the shock might kill his invalid mother, from whom the news is still kept. . The coroner told the jury that for the purposes of the execution .the prisoner was a person named Harvey.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21423, 15 March 1935, Page 11
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